[God luvs America]

that song was written to mock Ronald Reagan...

[rintintin]

“ that song was written to mock Ronald Reagan...“

Where did you hear that? It was played at Reagan’s speech on the anniversary of the Statue of Liberty.

[Political Junkie Too]

that song was written to mock Ronald Reagan...

We got a thousand points of light
For the homeless man
We got a kinder, gentler,

Those sound like Bush 41 words to me.

-PJ

[romanesq]

“that song was written to mock Ronald Reagan...”

And like Springsteen’s “Born in the USA,” us Americans have taken it and made it ours.

So much so, that years ago, I saw Neil Young at Madison Square Garden. He failed to perform “Rocking in the Free World” and on departing I said aloud, how is it possible he didn’t play it?

A little girl of no more than five on her dad’s shoulders replied from the crowd in frustration, “It’s my favorite song.”

You don’t think Neil Young knows? He knows. We don’t care, we’ve made it our American song. And it’s killing him.